Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 Corinthians 13:12

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, page 112, footnote 6 (Image)

Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus

Ignatius (HTML)

Epistle to the Antiochians (HTML)

Chapter XIII.—Salutations continued. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1263 (In-Text, Margin)

... life, and their very dear children. Polycarp, that most worthy bishop, who is also deeply interested in you, salutes you; and to him I have commended you in the Lord. The whole Church of the Smyrnæans, indeed, is mindful of you in their prayers in the Lord. Onesimus, the pastor of the Ephesians, salutes you. Damas, the bishop of Magnesia, salutes you. Polybius, bishop of the Trallians, salutes you. Philo and Agathopus, the deacons, my companions, salute you, “Salute one another with a holy kiss.”[2 Corinthians 13:12]

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 686, footnote 13 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Ethical. (HTML)

On Prayer. (HTML)

Of the Kiss of Peace. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 8864 (In-Text, Margin)

Another custom has now become prevalent. Such as are fasting withhold the kiss of peace, which is the seal of prayer, after prayer made with brethren. But when is peace more to be concluded with brethren than when, at the time of some religious observance, our prayer ascends with more acceptability; that they may themselves participate in our observance, and thereby be mollified for transacting with their brother touching their own peace? What prayer is complete if divorced from the “holy kiss?”[2 Corinthians 13:12] Whom does peace impede when rendering service to his Lord? What kind of sacrifice is that from which men depart without peace? Whatever our prayer be, it will not be better than the observance of the precept by which we are bidden to conceal our ...